Posted by susan C on August 31, 2001, at 13:05:49
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that
ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA
scientists spent a decade and $12 Billion to develop a pen that writes in
zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass
and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300C. The Russians used a
pencil.
poster:susan C
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